Re: [sdcc-devel] Re: [z88dk-dev] SDCC support for z80asm

[Michael H. <mic...@ju...>]

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On Mon, 24 Dec 2001, Henk Poley wrote:

> Hmm, yes, just before the z88dk-mailinglist broke we were talking about
> that, it's called 'sectioning', isn't it? z80asm doesn't have that kind of
> support. You can basicaly only define one sourcefile to be a header, where
> the rest is linked upon.

Yeah, that's accurate.

> > The calling conventions and assumptions look almost identical between the
> > two compilers.  It would be interesting to try having sdcc compile one
> > module and to link it against zcc code and/or libraries.
>
> Hmm, SDCC uses a different order for passing the variables ain't it? And
> SDCC uses HL for passing the first variable... But it should off coarse be
> possible to use SDCC compiled modules under the Z88DK (with some assembly
> 'hacks').

SDCC pushes right to left, and currently uses no register parameters.  I
didn't actually check which way around z88dk pushes.  It should be simple
enough to reverse the order.

 >
> > To give it a spin, try adding '--asm=z80asm' to the sdcc command line.

You could give the nightly automated build a try -

http://sdcc.sourceforge.net/snapshots/

- -- Michael
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